On the Computer

• You buy an extra hard drive for your computer to hold all the postings you want to save
• Your training director asks you if you can track down a handout called "Troop 500" and you just smile and nod and have a reply by the next day
• You're from a Girl Scout council in NY and you're a webmaster for a council in Texas
• You get e-mailed by one of your graduated Seniors who starts out with "Hi Mom" and you sniff
• You find something like the WAGGGS-L list and get so excited that you call your co-leader to tell her about it even though it's after 11:00 p.m.!
• You spend more time on #wagggschat than you do talking to your family, your primary method of communication with your daughter is email.
• Your daughter's leader has her daughter email your daughter to email you about troop news because your phone is always tied up
• When everyone at the council office teases you about how much time on the computer but know just who to ask when they're looking for something special
• At a leader's recognition event, the Executive Director of the Council invites leaders to keep in closer touch with the office, then looks directly at you and says with a smile, "That doesn't mean you." Then explains to the group that she regularly hears from you on Council business via e-mail
• You go in to the office early just to read the WAGGGS-L (after chatting past midnight on #wagggschat)
• When you maintain several Girl Scout websites, and not one for yourself
• The other clubs website you maintain has links to the Girl Scout sites
• The main reason you are on an internet is to find all the Girl Scout information you could possibly want or need. Then you store it on 25 different disks, labeled appropriately (ceremonies, games, songs, websites, etc.) for that time when you need it.
• You beg your husband for the latest computer equipment to use just for yourself so you have more room to add as much girl scout information as you can possibly find on the Internet.
• You get up real early to check your e-mail for the WAGGGS list and then spend the next hour checking through all your information to e-mail back to those in need of information you have stored somewhere.
• You have a troop/Service Unit Web site but not one for you or your family
• You are at an event as a participant and other leaders mistake you for event staff
• At a Basic Leader training and the trainer is asked about internet sites for GS she tells everyone to contact you about that information...my daughter couldn't believe it and my co-leader who was at the same training tried very hard to hide her amusement! I was in the building at a different training session